The bridge gives you killer views of Singapore City and its islands both day and night. And the bridge's smooth, scooped-out, wood-paneled hollows are perfect little caverns for taking a seat and watching the world float by from above. From the looks of the Instagrams, all of Singapore's cool kids are doing just that.

Singapore is hot, with an <a href="http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/SNXX0006" target="_hplink">average daily high in the upper 80s</a> and killer humidity. All. Year. Round. People living here like to boast or complain, depending on whom you consult, “There are two seasons in Singapore. Hot and Hotter.” Just thinking about it is making me sweat. Luckily, the Singapore Sports Council, the sports arm of the government, created a network of swimming facilities across the island to help the public to cool off, literally. The <a href="http://www.ssc.gov.sg/publish/Corporate/en/participation/hotspot/sports_facility/swimming_complex.html" target="_hplink">25 complexes</a> range from those with a couple of pools to the elaborate, where frolickers will find features more commonplace in water parks. (All complexes are government-subsidized, hence the low price of $0.65 for kids and $1.20 for adults on weekdays, rising to a bank-breaking $0.80 for kids and $1.60 for adults on weekends). My favorite is the one at Jurong East, with its three twisty, speedy water slides (the yellow one, the only one you can enter without an inner tube, is the shortest, quickest, and most bare-bones thrilling), a lazy river with a pull strong enough to surprise any unsuspecting grown-up, and a giant wave pool where huge spray jets raining down from above create little pellets of hail-like rain (trust me, that’s a good thing in a country where 75 degrees Fahrenheit is considered cold).
Photo: Sengkang Swimming Complex, courtesy of Singapore Sports Council